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Olympic champion Jones to speak at A&T SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE Cullen Jones, a U.S. competi tive swimmer and Olympic gold medalist, will be the keynote speaker for North Carolina A&T State University Student Honors Day Convocation. The convoca tion, which is free and open to the public, will be held Wednesday, April 10 from 10 a.m. - noon in Harrison Auditorium. Jones specializes in freestyle sprint events. He is the first African American to break a world record as well as win a gold medal at the World University games when he was a student at North Carolina State University. When Jones partici pated in the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, he became the second African American to win a swimming Gold as a part of the world-record shattering 4 xlOOm Freestyle relay team. During the 2012 London Olympic Games, Cullen added to his relay Gold from Beijing, with two Silver medals and a Gold medal, including an individual Silver medal in his specialty SOm Freestyle. An ambassador for the USA Swimming Foundation's Make a Splash program, Cullen travels throughout the country providing free swim lessons to children of all ages. The program focuses on teaching children and minorities to swim and the importance of water safety and drowning pre vention. A motivational speaker, Jones speaks at universities, corpora tions and non-profit organiza tions regarding his Olympic experience and overcoming < adversity to achieve any goal. 1 NBC Sports Photo North Carolina resident Cullen Jones has won several Olympic medals. Emory from page Al ed by the U.S. District Court. A series of court proceedings have ensued in recent years, beginning prior to Emory's arrival in 2006. Both white and African American groups have, at one time or anoth er, sued the school system over its assignment plans. The school board is cur rently slated to appear in court this spring for fmal proceedings, when they will learn whether the sys tem has satisfied the requirements of integration laws and can officially be released from the court order. "The dis trict has taken appropriate steps to elimi nate the ves tiges of segre gation," Emory said. "It doesn't mean that we are perfect and we don't still have work to do." The online news site Camel City Dispatch also reported last week that Emory came under scruti ny from the Greenville area CBS affiliate for using public money to hire a pri vate investigator to find out if some student athletes were qualified to play on certain football teams. A prevalence of students playing for teams outside of their residential districts reportedly led to this action, which Emory told Greenville-based Channel 9 was completely above board. John Davenport, vice chair of the WS/FCS Board of Education, said he isn't H aim ton concerned about Pitt County's checkered court history. "From the beginning, the Board was aware of the court mandated desegrega tion order that has been in place for nearly 50 years in the Pitt County communi ty," he stated. "Dr. Emory was very transparent about the efforts she and her Board have taken to address an issue that pre ceded her tenure." If anything, Davenport said Emory's experiences in Pitt County are a selling point to him. Her com mitment to work ing with a diverse commu nity with differ ent opinions on how things should be done, as well as a divided Board of Education, is one of the things that attracted me to Dr. Emory for the role of superintendent here," he said. "She has demonstrated that she has the tenacity to take on tough issues." Emory said the chal lenges she faced in Pitt County have been great learning tools for her. "It's not bad pressure," she said. "You need to feel that pressure to keep work ing hard ... so in some ways, it has been a good thing. I've learned a lot." One of the subjects of debate has been an elemen tary school that opened in the county in 2011. Plaintiffs have argued that the school violates the court order because it is predominantly African American, but Emory said the school was opened to serve the population around it, which happens to be predominantly African American and which was overwhelming ly in favor of the school s creation when administra tors surveyed them prior to its construction. "The parents of the stu dents who lived closest to that school are predomi nantly African American and their children had been being transported from a pretty decent distance to another school ... to achieve better diversity in that school," Emory said. "I can't recall a parent we saw either in meetings or going door to door who didn't want to go to the new school." Despite the plaintiff's objections, the school has been a success, achieving high growth on end of grade tests in three of four subject areas and landing a PTA award for its high level of parental involve ment, Emory said. "They're doing very well," she said. "They're making good progress." Ronald Travis, princi pal of Carver High School, worked under Emory as a school administrator in Pitt County for four years. "As an administrator. 1 found her to be very fair to all schools. She used her influence and school resources to ensure that all children received a good education." he said of Emory, who visited Carver last week, the day after her appointment was announced. "The energy and interest she displayed during her visit to Winston-Salem is sin cere. She is very passionate about educating all chil dren." Emory said she hopes the local community will judge her on her record, in Pitt County - where she says out of school suspen sion rates have dropped "tremendously" during her tenure, the dropout rate has been slashed by 50 percent and the graduation rate has increased from 58-73 per cent - rather than the coun ty's history. "There's clearly some improvements that have been made, and that would be my same approach in my (new) community. I am a listener and 1 want to hear what their hopes and dreams are," she said of local community members and stakeholders. "I was so impressed by the high involvement of people dur ing my visit. The peQple really do care." Hairston said his fears about Emory 's background have been allayed. "After receiving infor mation from the Pitt County NAACP this week end, my concerns about the new superintendent has been (satisfactorily) answered." Hairston said in an email to The Chronicle on Monday. "I look for ward to working with her on the many problems in the school system." Emory said she is look ing forward to talking with Hairston and other leaders in the local community in the coming weeks and months. "I'm really excited about the opportunity." she declared. "I'm going to do all I can to get out in the community and meet with people and hear from them, hopefully before I start the job on July 1." Sherrod from page A4 director of graduate pro grams and as the advanced nurse educator coordinator. In addition to his teaching duties, he also provides guest lec tures related to nursing and health law in the Department of Healthcare Management, lectures to undergraduate Robert Wood Johnson Scholars in the nursing program and. in the past, has taught health systems courses in the Department of Physical Therapy. Prior to joining WSSU, Sherrod was associate director of the North Carolina Center for Nursing. On the national level, he has served as president of the Center for American Nurses and was one of 20 nurses in the nation selected as a Robert Wood Johnson Nurse Executive Fellow. He is a past pres ident of the North Carolina Nurses Association and has served on numerous nurse-focused statewide committees. Sherrod earned his undergraduate degree in nursing at Barton College and his master's degree in nursing education at East Carolina. IBS from page A5 can worsen IBS symp toms for some people, so lowering your stress level is also important. Some good ways to lower your stress level are regular exercise, meditation, yoga and counseling. The best way to iden Itify things that trigger or worsen your IBS symp toms is by keeping a jour nal of what you eat and when you eat it. This can help you determine the foods that your colon may be sensitive to or that cause your colon to not work properly. 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This program also fur thers our outreach efforts and ensures the Festival's demographics match both the diversity of our local community and the diver sity of the films we pres ent," said RiverRun Executive Director Andrew Rodgers. For a full schedule oj events, go to www.river runfilm.com. I SKL. SKiE-flBSaE 1 " ??SJ? WS/PCS Photo Shania Robinson helps to make the film. Films from page Aft such television shows as "L.A. Law" and "Rescue 911." With the support of an Arts-in-Education grant from The Arts Council of Winston-Salem & Forsyth County, she has been work ing with students at Diggs Latham and Reynolds High School since January to make a short movie at each of the schools. Both schools were cho sen because of their focus on the arts. At Reynolds, Hill is working with stu dents in the advanced the ater program. Using a script that the students wrote, they are making a movie called "The Harrowing." Students have divided into six director/v ideog raphe r teams and each team is directing a two-minute seg ment of their movie. It, too, is being shot on location. At Diggs-Latham, Stevenson teaches dance and theatre, so using her students was a natural choice. Stevenson chose 12 fourth-graders in the hon ors program to participate in the project. The script for Kindness was adapted from a play by Kevin Stone. Hill is directing and editing the movie. She began the project by talk ing with the Diggs-Latham students about all the steps that go into making a movie. Some students are working as actors. Others are operating the camera and handling such produc tion responsibilities as holding up the clapboard marked with the number of the scene and take. Hill has been going back to the school periodically to shoot segments-of the movie. "Kindness" is scheduled to be shown at the Awards Day program on April 12. 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